What are the important events that happened on April 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 15: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 15 is the 105th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 2, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,744,675,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentagon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 308 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,498 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 15 Historical Events
- 1632 –Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years’ War.
- 1638 –Tokugawa shogunate forces put down the Shimabara Rebellion when they retake Hara Castle from the rebels.
- 1755 –Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
- 1802 –William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a “long belt” of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
- 1900 –Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
- 1924 –Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
- 1958 –Walter O'Malley’s Los Angeles Dodgers host the first Major League Baseball game played on the West Coast of the United States.
- 1986 –The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
- 1989 –Upon Hu Yaobang’s death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People’s Republic of China.
- 1992 –The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Who were born on April 15?
- 1688 –Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758)
- 1710 –William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790)
- 1922 –Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor
- 1923 –Robert DePugh, American anti-Communist activist (d. 2009)
- 1940 –Woodie Fryman, American baseball player
- 1942 –Walt Hazzard, American basketball player
- 1951 –Heloise, American newspaper columnist
- 1962 –Tom Kane, American voice actor
- 1972 –Lou Romano, American voice actor
- 1978 –Milton Bradley, American baseball player
Who died on April 15?
- 1754 –Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
- 1804 –Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)
- 1888 –Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822)
- 1898 –Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
- 1943 –Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (b. 1882)
- 1949 –Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885)
- 1970 –Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)
- 1984 –Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (b. 1921)
- 1988 –Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (b. 1954)
- 2003 –Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (b. 1941)
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